Saturday, August 23, 2008

It ain't from a comic book, but it's still funny ....

Sorry for the brief political interlude, but the fiction that the Barack Obama campaign is all about "Change for America" was just blown out of the water with the selection of Joe Biden as the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee.

DNC apologists, media pundits and basically anybody suffering from brain damage, will try to spin this terrible news as a "positive" thing, but please ... some of us can still think for ourselves.

Sad, sad, unfortunate news for the many citizens of this country who had thrown their support behind Obama.

It's the same-old-same-old in Washington, just as it always seems to be.

And no, McCain's impending announcement is not likely to be any better. Neither of these guys deserves a chance to become President of the United States of America, and Hillary would have been a mistake too.

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How it all began ....

In 1933, publishers at Eastern Color Press, intent to make better use of their printing equipment (which frequently sat idle between jobs), came up with the idea of printing an 8-page comic section that could be folded down from the large broadsheet to a smaller 9-inch by 12-inch format. The result was the first modern comic book. Containing reprints of newspaper comic strips, this experimental comic book titled "Funnies On Parade" was given away for free. It proved so popular that the following year Eastern published "Famous Funnies" and took the bold step of selling the comic for ten cents through chain stores. The enterprise was a smashing success and Eastern began churning out numerous reprints on a monthly basis. Other publishers, eager to get in on the profits, jumped on the bandwagon and the comic book industry was born!